In re Shewchun

In re Shewchun, 476 U.S. 1156 (1986)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: June 2, 1986
Docket: No. 85-5957
Citations: 476 U.S. 1156106 S. Ct. 229390 L. Ed. 2d 73354 U.S.L.W. 37931986 U.S. LEXIS 1513

Cited by 179 9 descriptions by later courts

Opinion of the Court

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Petition for writ of mandamus denied.

How later courts describe this case

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(submission of this mitigating cir cumstance to the jury proper, notwithstanding a record showing eighteen felony convictions, all acquired during defendant’s youth)

State v. Artis, 384 S.E.2d 470 (N.C. 1989)
(circumstance supported where victim shot six times and suffered intense pain for up to fifteen minutes before dying)

State v. Rouse, 451 S.E.2d 543 (N.C. 1994)
(refers to the phrases disjunctively; finding permissible when brutality exceeds that which is normally present in any killing, or when murder was conscienceless, pitiless, or unnecessarily torturous to the victim)

State v. Syriani, 428 S.E.2d 118 (N.C. 1993)
(prior conviction of a violent felony; heinous, atrocious, or cruel)

State v. Bacon, 446 S.E.2d 542 (N.C. 1994)

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State v. McNeil375 S.E.2d 909 (N.C. 1989)
State v. Bacon446 S.E.2d 542 (N.C. 1994)
State v. Rouse451 S.E.2d 543 (N.C. 1994)
State v. Greene376 S.E.2d 430 (N.C. 1989)
State v. Cummings372 S.E.2d 541 (N.C. 1988)
State v. Harris371 S.E.2d 689 (N.C. 1988)

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State v. Rodriguez814 S.E.2d 11 (N.C. 2018)
State v. Phillips711 S.E.2d 122 (N.C. 2011)
State v. Hurst624 S.E.2d 309 (N.C. 2006)
State v. Cummings609 S.E.2d 423 (N.C. Ct. App. 2005)
State v. Bell603 S.E.2d 93 (N.C. 2004)
State v. Bell592 S.E.2d 200 (N.C. 2004)

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